Window-refrigerator.



T. 0. FLEMING. WINDOW REFRIGERATOR.

APPLIGATION FILED MAY 7, 1912.

1,121,819. Patented Dec.22,1914

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WINDOW-REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. 7

Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

Application filed May 7, 1912. Serial No. ceases.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs C. FLEM- rxc, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented a new and useful Nindow-Refrigerator, of which the followin is a specification.

This invention relates to a refrigerator designed to rest on the ledge of a window and occupy the entire width thereof, access to the refrigerator from within the room being closable by the window sash.

The refrigerator box is so constructed as to provide a window box for plants and flowers whereby the soil and the foliage of the plant will screen the refrigerator box from the heat of the sun and by their evaporation will maintain a low temperature within.

The device has been particularly designed for use in the rooms of apartment houses as it does not encroach on the room space and is quite inconspicuous as an article of domestic furnishing, while its the window insures ample ventilation by incoming fresh air.

The invention is particularly described in the following specification, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Fgure 1 is a perspective view of the refrigerator box from within the room, and Fig. 2, a cross section at A in Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing an alternative means of applying the ice receptacle.

In these drawings 2 represents the window frame, 3 being the lower sash, which is vertically movable in the frame.

The refrigerator chamber comprises a rectangular box 4 fitted to fill the lower part of the window space and rest upon the sill 5, the open front of the box being toward the room and closable by the vertically movable sash 3.

The top of the refrigerator chamber 4: has a raised border forming a window box 6 for flowers or plants, which box may be metal lined and provided with drainage tubes projecting clear of the front of the box.

The face of the box toward the room approximately alines with the inner face of the parting strip of the sash frame and the space between the face of the window box and the glass of the sash is closable by a position outside tures 10 provided with fine wire gauze, I

which may be held in place by an ornamental molding on the outside. These ventilating apertures may be closable from within in any suitable manner. As shown, this is done by light shutters 8 supported along the bottom edges to open inward a limited amount or to be removable altogether and having provision by which it may be secured along the upper edge, so that the ventilation may be under control. In the midlength of the box is an ice holding receptacle 12, the dimensions of which should, be such as to hold a specially molded block of ice. This receptacle 12 has an open top, and the upper edges of its sides are turned inward, as at 18. By these inturned edges the receptacle is suspended from the downwardly bent edges of a plate 14: secured to the top of the chamber 4 and are held up to this engagement by cleats 15 secured also to the top of the chamber. The ice receptacle 12 is thus slidable outward through the front of the chamber and may be readily recharged with its block of ice.

The sides of the receptacle have apertures '16 and 17 toward the top and bottom to facilitate circulation of the fresh air, and in the bottom is a draining aperture 18 delivering into a removable tray 19.

A grid 20 is provided for each half of the chamber at on which the provisions or other articles, which it is desired to keep cool will be supported above the level of the bottom permitting free circulation of the ice cooled air under them.

If a larger capacity of ice receptacle is required, the same may, as shown in Fig. 3, be carried up to the level of the upper side of the window box, which in this case will be divided into two separate plant boxes with a stand between them.

A simple, inexpensive and eminently convenient refrigerator is thus provided which can be readily applied to any window of the required size.

In the summer time, when the window box is filled with plants, the non-conducting character of the soil and the foliage of the plants growing in the box and trailing over the front will assist in maintaining a low temperature Within the box.

In use the plants of the window box not only serve the purpose explained, of helping to keep the refrigerator cool but they effectively disguise the use of the box as a refrigerator, which, in some localities, might be considered objectionable.

From within the room the refrigerator box is screened entirely if the sash is provided with a short blind.

Having now particularly described my invention and the principles of its design, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is:

In a window refrigerator, a box having an open front in combination with a window sash and glass for closing said open front, said box being mounted in the window frame adjacent to the window, and in- 25 eluding an upper trough-like section to form a window box for plants, and a cross rail carried by the window sash for closing the space between the glass of the window and the refrigerator box, said rail adapted to 30 Witnesses ROWLAND BRITTAIN, MAY WHYTE.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. C. 

